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Browns right tackle Ryan Tucker let out a little secret under the blast-furnace sun Tuesday.
"I've played a lot of pass rushers," Tucker said as sweat streamed down his face. "(Antwan) Peek's got it all, baby."
In Tucker's mind, Peek isn't the guy who spent four forgettable years with the Houston Texans. He's the force who helped the Cincinnati Bearcats put Ohio State on the ropes in a near-loss that would have cost the Buckeyes a national championship.
He's the free agency pickup who will get Cleveland's pass rush over the hump.
"Peek is a helluva pass rusher," Tucker said a few minutes after a two-minute drill. "I'm so happy I get to work against that guy. He's gonna take my game to another level. With him, Kamerion Wimbley and Willie McGinest ... it's gonna be fun, man. I'm telling ya."
Fun wasn't in Tucker's vocabulary last year. Battling mental health issues, he played in only nine games, preventing him from reaching the 100-starts milestone in career that began as a fourth-round draft pick of the Rams in 1997.
Now, almost two months past his 32nd birthday, Tucker speaks humbly but confidently about his comeback bid.
He said he feels "great" physically but still is fighting to master new coordinator Rob Chudzinski's terminology.
"I don't feel tired," he said. "Basically, it's getting everything into my skull, organizing it, getting to where I don't have to think.
"On Day 4 ... it's not all there yet for me."
When Tucker joined the Browns as a free agent in 2002, offensive line guru Jim Hanifan said the Browns were getting a quality starter everyone in Cleveland would grow to like. That pretty much came true.
"What we're doing here now," Tucker said, "is the same things we did in St. Louis with Jim (he went to two Super Bowls under Hanifan's tutelage). There are some different nuances here and there, but it's still mostly the same ... and I still screw it up sometimes."
The Browns' offensive line has been messed up most of the time since 1999.
"There can't be any excuses any more," Tucker said. "They've done everything in their power to improve the line."
Even if 2006 free agency pickup LeCharles Bentley can't recover from a serious injury, coaches think the Browns can function with Hank Fraley at center.
Rookie No. 3 overall pick Joe Thomas seems on course to start at left tackle. Eric Steinbach, this year's top free agency pickup, is having a strong early camp at left guard. In practice, the team is running lots of reverses to the left side, a nod perhaps to Tucker's and Steinbach's prowess.
On the right side, 2006 left tackle Kevin Shaffer might wind up competing against Tucker at right tackle. If Tucker is his old self, though, he looms as a better right tackle than Shaffer, who isn't suited to play guard, General Manager Phil Savage has said.
The current No. 1 right guard is free agency pickup Seth McKinney, who says he thinks he can be one of the league's best at the position.
Tucker's eyes light up when a question about the line's overall quality comes up:
"Oh, man. It's awesome. It really is. The running game is to another level right now. It's better than it has been since I've been here. (Running back) Jamal Lewis ... the dude's a stud.
"The guys are playing well together. It's physical. Good athletes who are physical. You can't ask for any more."
Only Steve Heiden, Orpheus Roye and Phil Dawson have been with the current Browns longer than Tucker. If he can't make it back, Shaffer and young veteran Kelly Butler can fill his spot.
"This is a no-promise league," Tucker said. "Right now, I try get as much as I can out of each day.
"I can't promise anybody how long I'm gonna be here ... a year or two or three or four or five ... or if I'll be here tomorrow.
"All I can do is try be a leader on the team and have some fun."
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What does a Harvard University professor have to do with flash fiction? Nothing. And everything. Or, at least, something.
I've thought for a long time now that good flash fiction packs a punch. It heightens emotional responses, engages readers, invites them to be a part of the story, makes them think…and keeps them thinking.
As I said in a recent guest post at D. Wallace Peach's blog, "I want to make readers wonder what the hell just happened then decide for themselves three hours later because they can't stop thinking about it." Well, I've found a bit of scientific proof on why that could be a good thing.
Daniel Gilbert is a professor, psychologist, writer, speaker, award-winner, and all sorts of other cool stuff. He's done numerous studies on our ability to imagine the future, anticipate outcomes, make decisions, and how all these things affect our happiness. He's written and talked about it. A lot. You should check him out.
But what I'd like to focus on today is one study he referred to in an interview on NPR: Why We're Bad At Predicting Our Own Happiness — And How We Can Get Better. Participants watched a movie. Some got to see the end and some did not. (I know, right? Gah!) Here's part of the transcript:
GILBERT: Well, there's no doubt that uncertainty can amplify emotions…
We did a study in which people watched a movie. And for some of the people in our experiment, we didn't let them watch how the movie ended. We didn't let them see what happened to the main character. Now, if I asked you, which of these two movies would you rather see, 100 percent of the hands go up and say, I'd like to see the end of the movie, please.
But what we discovered was people who didn't see the end of the movie liked it more, thought about it for longer, were still engaged in it and still enjoying it, even hours or days later. They didn't see what happened to the last – the main character in the end, and so they kept wondering, gosh, I wonder if he went to college or he became a football player. What an interesting thing to be thinking about and enjoying.
Look at that: "people who didn't see the end of the movie liked it more, thought about it for longer, were still engaged in it and still enjoying it, even hours or days later."
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Flash fiction.
I know it's not exactly the same thing but, wow, it really is similar if you think about it. I mean, you read a flash. And, although it often has a beginning, middle, and end…it hints. You finish the story with some fulfillment but with questions clinging to your brain.
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And she did some shimmying as an over-sexed Congresswoman Michele Bachmann in a parody video about the government shutdown.
Cyrus seized attention and criticism in August for her sexually charged MTV Video Music Awards performance, which featured the singer in scanty garb while exhibiting suggestive twerking gyrations.
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Marmet, West Virginia is a town of 1,500 people living in a thin ribbon along the banks of the Kanawha River just below Charleston. The town's public library is only open Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays. It's housed in a small building the size of a trailer, which the state of West Virginia describes as an "extremely small facility with only one Internet connection." Which is why it's such a surprise to learn the Marmet Public Library runs this connection through a $15,000 to $20,000 Cisco 3945 router intended for "mid-size to large deployments," according to Cisco.
In an absolutely scathing report (PDF) just released by the state's legislative auditor, West Virginia officials are accused of overspending at least $5 million of federal money on such routers, installed indiscriminately in both large institutions and one-room libraries across the state. The routers were purchased without ever asking the state's libraries, cops, and schools what they needed. And when distributed, the expensive routers were passed out without much apparent care. The small town of Clay received seven of them to serve a total population of 491 people... and all seven routers were installed within only .44 miles of each other at a total cost of more than $100,000.
In total, $24 million was spent on the routers through a not-very-open bidding process under which non-Cisco router manufacturers such as Juniper and Alcatel-Lucent were not "given notice or any opportunity to bid." As for Cisco, which helped put the massive package together, the legislative auditor concluded that the company "had a moral responsibility to propose a plan which reasonably complied with Cisco's own engineering standards" but that instead "Cisco representatives showed a wanton indifference to the interests of the public in recommending using $24 million of public funds to purchase 1,164 Cisco model 3945 branch routers."
In other words, the project has been a stellar example of what not to do and how not to do it.
A million here, a million there
The routers in question were purchased as part of a much larger grant from the Broadband Technology Opportunities Program (BTOP), which passed out several billion dollars to help upgrade broadband networks across America as part of President Obama's initial stimulus package in 2009. West Virginia's cash was meant to wire up the many "community anchor institutions" such as libraries, schools, police, and hospitals across the state with Internet access delivered over fiber-optic lines. As part of the project, the state also had to purchase some sort of router for each institution. Instead of "right-sizing" the routers for their intended destinations, the state group of officials charged with implementing the grant decided they would make things easy by purchasing the exact same router and installing it everywhere, even in the most rural locations they planned to reach.
This became controversial in 2012 when local newspapers brought the issue to light and questioned whether the state had not just been boondoggled. The Charleston Gazette noted an official in the state's Office of Technology had actually e-mailed his colleagues to say "this equipment may be grossly oversized for several of the facilities in which it is currently slated to be installed" but that the warning was not heeded. The issue quickly escalated to Congress, where officials from the executive branch were grilled about the West Virginia situation and whether the federal government had exercised enough oversight of the project.
The state of West Virginia has now weighed in with its own report on the routers, and it makes for mind-boggling reading. Consider, for instance, how routers were purchased for the state police. When the West Virginia State Police purchased their own routers a few years earlier, they chose Cisco model 2xxx machines at a cost of only $5,000 or so apiece, with only a single Cisco 3xxx model purchased for the largest deployment. In 2010, when the state received its grant money, no one asked the State Police what they wanted or needed; indeed, the police were "never contacted" at all by the Grant Implementation Team. (This was a widespread problem; the report notes no capacity or user needs surveys were ever done before the money was spent). Instead, the team simply ordered 77 Cisco 3945 routers at a cost of $20,661 apiece—that's one $20,000 router for every 13.7 state police employees—and sent them off to the police. (Each router can handle several hundred concurrent users.)
Had the Grant Implementation Team replaced 70 of these routers with the cheaper model, the state could have saved $1.4 million. And that's assuming that the routers were even needed to begin with—in many cases, they were not.
Such cost savings could have been found all over the state. Nearly all of the West Virginia's 172 libraries could have saved $16,000 per router, saving the state $2.8 million more. Many of the state's public schools are likewise small institutions that could have easily used smaller routers and saved another $3.68 million. In total, another $5+ million could have been spent on tech that was actually useful for the state's residents.
What was the grant team thinking?
How it happened
The state Office of Technology contends the massive routers might save the state money in the long run by supporting cheap VoIP systems instead of standard telephone lines. But the legislative auditor notes that each of the 3945 routers can handle 700 to 1,200 VoIP lines, which means that the 1,164 routers purchased by the state could support up to 1.39 million lines. As the auditor's report dryly notes, only a single library in the entire state has more than eight phone lines; most have one or two. (None use a VoIP system anyway.)
Ironically, the routers can't even be used for VoIP in some key cases. The state police already have a VoIP-based phone system, but the new 3945 series routers did not come with "the appropriate Cisco VoIP modules" to work with the system. The state now has to spend another $84,768 to purchase those modules; without them, the state police can't use the routers, only two of which are actually installed and operating. (For those keeping score at home, this means that 75 $20,000 routers are depreciating in a state police warehouse somewhere in West Virginia.)
The report also lays a good deal of blame on Cisco and on the company's engineer for the project. The engineer told the auditor he was simply following the state's instructions, which required him to spec out a proposal using only routers with "internal dual power supplies"—hence the 3945s. As the auditor dug into the story, demanding to know when this exact request was made, the Cisco engineer said it originated with the state Department of Education. But the engineer was "unable to provide the legislative auditor with any e-mails or other documentation" to this effect.
The auditor began digging, speaking to many people in West Virginia state government who had been involved with the project. The Department of Education told him that it "did not request or require that the routers for the state's schools have internal dual power supplies. Education would not have made this requirement because unless a school has two power sources the feature of dual power supplies would have no use." A network engineer for the Department of Education confirmed that he had not requested such a feature.
So the auditor went to the state's Office of Technology, which was also involved in the project. An employee there said that dual power supplies had come up, but only for "24/7/365 locations such as regional jails and DHHR state hospitals." VoIP support was discussed "but not required," he added, and he concluded by saying, "It was never implied to put each feature in all routers."
Cisco defended itself by saying it had drawn up a complete spreadsheet of its proposed bid, and the state had reviewed it. If it didn't need or want these features, or if it thought the routers were too large, it should have said so.
The legislative auditor was also apparently quite peeved by this entire investigation. The auditor's office sent off a fairly testy e-mail to Cisco noting that the 3945 routers were not appropriate for most West Virginia deployments—even according to Cisco's own literature. "I would appreciate an explanation as to why you believe the 3945 routers are not oversized and misconfigured for hundreds of locations," the auditor concluded, "and, thus, a significant over expenditure of millions of dollars for Cisco equipment." The Cisco rep responded the state had reviewed his spreadsheets and not objected and that the 3945s were large enough to allow for future expansion.
The auditor then asked the legislature's own tech team what they used. The West Virginia legislature at peak times can have over 600 internal users and numerous guests accessing "multiple Web servers, up to eight simultaneous live audio webcasts, multiple SQL servers, and multiple Google search appliances located in the Legislature's server farms." Despite all this, the legislature doesn't even use a router but instead runs a cheaper Cisco switch... and it has never exceeded capacity.
The auditor asked one of the legislature's network specialists if he would even want a 3945 router; the man said no because "it greatly exceeds the Legislature's needs." And yet somehow more than 1,000 of them had been sent to the very furthest, most rural corners of the state.
The report finds plenty of blame to go around. The ultimate cause of the fiasco, it says, was the fact the grant implementers did not conduct a capacity or use study before spending $24 million. They also used a "legally unauthorized purchasing process" to buy the routers, which resulted in only modest competition for the bid. Finally, Cisco is accused of knowingly selling the state larger routers than it needed and of showing a "wanton indifference to the interests of the public."
Getting any of the money back seems unlikely at this point, but the legislative auditor does have one solid recommendation to make. The State Purchasing division should determine whether Cisco's actions in this matter fall afoul of section 5A-3-33d of the West Virginia Code, and whether the company should be barred from bidding on future projects.
Cisco tells Ars "the criticism of the State is misplaced and fails to recognize the forward-looking nature of their vision. The positive impact of broadband infrastructure on education, job creation, and economic development is well established, and we are committed to working with the State to realize these benefits for the people of West Virginia now and into the future."
As for that $5+ million the state could have saved, it would have paid for 104 additional miles of fiber.


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Present:His Excellency the Governor-General in Council
Rating (Fees) Amendment Regulations 2011: revoked, on 1 July 2013, pursuant to regulation 28(d) of the High Court Fees Regulations 2013 (SR 2013/226).
Changes authorised by section 17C of the Acts and Regulations Publication Act 1989 have been made in this reprint.
A general outline of these changes is set out in the notes at the end of this reprint, together with other explanatory material about this reprint.
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Pursuant to section 100A of the Judicature Act 1908, His Excellency the Governor-General, acting on the advice and with the consent of the Executive Council, makes the following regulations.
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These regulations are the Rating (Fees) Amendment Regulations 2011.
These regulations come into force on 1 July 2011.
These regulations amend the Rating (Fees) Regulations 1997.
(1) Regulation 2(1) is amended by omitting "$145" and substituting "$175.20".
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Michael Webster,for Clerk of the Executive Council.
This note is not part of the regulations, but is intended to indicate their general effect.
These regulations, which come into force on 1 July 2011, are made under the Judicature Act 1908 (the Act). They amend rating (fees) regulations made under the Act. Fees in respect of the sale or lease of a rating unit through the High Court are adjusted to reflect the movement in the New Zealand Consumers Price Index (All Groups) since 1 July 2004.
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•punctuation (eg, colons are not used after definitions)
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•small capital letters in section and subsection references are now capital letters
•schedules are renumbered (eg, Schedule 1 replaces First Schedule), and all cross-references are changed accordingly
•running heads (the information that appears at the top of each page)
•format of two-column schedules of consequential amendments, and schedules of repeals (eg, they are rearranged into alphabetical order, rather than chronological).
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A Shanghai-based author revisits the notorious 1937 murder of a British consul's daughter
Midnight in Peking How the Murder of Young Englishwoman Haunted the Last Days of Old China. By Paul French. Viking, 259 pp., $26.
By Janice Harayda
Midnight in Peking tells such good story that you wish could believe all of it. The book seems at first to be a straightforward history of a sadistic crime: On a frigid January day in 1937, someone murdered a 19-year-old Englishwoman and left her mutilated body, clad in a tartan skirt and platinum-and-diamond watch, at the foot of a Peking watchtower. A ghastly detail stood out: The body had no heart, which had disappeared along with several of its other internal organs.
A British-Chinese police team learned quickly that the victim was Pamela Werner, the daughter of a retired consul, who lived with her widowed father in the Legation Quarter, a gated enclave favored by Westerners in Peking. Shadier neighborhoods nearby teemed with brothels, dive bars and opium dens. And potential suspects abounded, including Pamela's father, Edward Werner, who inherited the $20,000 bequest that his daughter had received after her mother died of murky causes. But the official investigation of the young woman's murder repeatedly stalled in the face of bureaucratic incompetence, corruption or indifference, and it faded away, unsolved, after Peking fell to the invading Japanese later in 1937.
In Midnight in Peking, the Shanghai-based author Paul French offers a swift and plausible account of what happened to the former boarding-school student who had called Peking "the safest city in the world." The problem is that French describes his story as a "reconstruction" without explaining what that means. Did he invent, embellish or rearrange details? French says he drew in part on the "copious notes" that Pamela's father sent to the British Foreign Office after doing his own investigation. Edward Werner's payments to his sources may have compromised some of that information. And Werner's files don't appear to explain other aspects of the book. How did French learn the thoughts of long-dead people such as Richard Dennis, the chief British detective on the case? Is Midnight in Peking nonfiction or "faction," the word some critics apply to Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, which contains quotes that its author has admitted he made up? In the absence of answers, this book provides vibrant glimpses of what its author calls "a city on the edge" but leaves you wondering if deserves its categorization as "history" on the copyright page.
Best line: "Meanwhile, somewhere out there were Pamela's internal organs."
Worst line: "Dennis sat back. He reminded himself …" The book gives no source for these lines and for a number of others like them. An end note in the "Sources" section doesn't answer the questions its page raises.
Published: April 2012 (first American edition).
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The iPhone will officially arrive at T-Mobile USA within three to four months, according to CEO John Legere. Legere made the comments to Reuters during the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, noting that the company's plans to drop phone subsidies would also come to fruition during that same time period.
T-Mobile announced in December that it would finally begin offering the iPhone to subscribers, after years of being the only major US carrier without the device. At the time, the company was vague about which Apple products it would carry; the iPhone is a given, but T-Mobile may follow in AT&T, Verizon, and Sprint's footsteps by offering a cellular version of the iPad as well.
Legere's comments at CES didn't address the iPad, however—instead, he stuck solely to the iPhone and subsidies as his main talking points.
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In a separate comment, Legere also said that T-Mobile is already supporting 1.9 million iPhones on its network, and that it was seeing 100,000 new iPhone activations every month already.
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My husband and I don't have an allergy to dairy, but we typically don't keep milk in the house because we prefer coconut or almond milk beverages. So when I decided to send some cupcakes to work with my husband to welcome his boss, who lives in Colorado and was coming to Wichita for the first time to stay for a week, I decided just to make them completely dairy free and see how they turned out. I was really impressed with the results! I've never made white cake without using a box mix, and I was quite pleased with how crazy moist these were, and they did not have a hint of coconut flavor, despite all the "dairy" coming from coconut. They tasted just like regular white cake, and they were a hit with the boss and co-workers.
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½ cup coconut milk beverage*, room temperature (I used Silk Pure Coconut Original)
3 large egg whites, room temperature
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
1 teaspoon almond extract
1 ¼ cups all-purpose flour
1 cup granulated sugar
2 teaspoons aluminum-free baking powder*
½ teaspoon salt
½ cup refined coconut oil, room temperature*
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Line cupcake tin with paper liners; set aside.
In a 1-cup measure, mix together the milk, egg whites, and extracts; set aside. In large bowl, mix remaining ingredients, except for the oil. Add the oil and mix until incorporated and there are moist crumbs, with no powdery streaks remaining.. Add all but ¼ cup of the milk mixture and beat at medium speed for 1 ½ minutes. Add remaining milk mixture and beat 30 seconds more. Stop mixer to scrape the sides of the bowl, then beat again on medium for 20 more seconds.
Using an ice cream scoop, divide batter between prepared muffin cups. Bake for 15-17 minutes, or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean or with a few moist crumbs. Cool in tin on a wire rack. I prefer to turn mine out onto the rack after a few minutes to finish cooling so the pan doesn't bake them too much by retaining the heat.
Once cupcakes are completely cool, frost with White Celebration Frosting, or your favorite dairy-free frosting.
Makes 12 cupcakes.
*Notes: you can use canned coconut milk and unrefined coconut oil, but this will give your cupcakes a distinct coconut flavor. If you want them to taste like white cake, please follow the recipe as written. Also, I recommend using Rumford, or another aluminum-free baking powder in recipes calling for more than a teaspoon, as the aluminum can give a very strong, unpleasant aftertaste. This is especially true in cakes with milder flavors, like white or yellow.
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This merciless winter is taking a heavy toll on the nation's pipes and pavement, breaking hundreds of water mains that turn streets into frozen rivers and opening potholes so big they snap tire rims and wheel axles like Popsicle sticks.
From Iowa to New York and Michigan to Georgia, the relentless cycle of snow and bitter cold is testing the strength of the steel-and-cement skeletons on which our communities are built, the patience of the people who live there and the stamina of crews whose job is to keep the roads safe and the taps running.
Even after the weather eases, state and local governments will be left with steep repair bills that could affect their budgets for months to come.
In scores of cities, once-smooth roadways have been transformed into obstacle courses by gaping potholes that can seriously damage passing vehicles but are too large to avoid.
New York City crews filled 69,000 potholes in the first five weeks of the year — nearly twice as many as the same period in 2013. In Iowa, a Des Moines official said the city has never endured so many broken water mains in the 100-year history of its water utility.
Michigan's top transportation official warned that the icy conditions would create more potholes than "we've probably ever seen in our lifetime."
Busted water mains have created the most dramatic scenes — and the greatest challenge for repair crews, who must dig into rock-hard ground to reach pipes that are up to a century old and cannot withstand the pressure exerted by earth that shifts as it freezes.
On Tuesday, a broken water main in Detroit flooded several blocks, trapping cars that included a taxi. The cab driver had to be plucked out by rescue workers.
"The fireman came and got me out — put me on his shoulder," Michael Hooks said. "Thank you, Detroit firemen."
The western Illinois city of Moline has had 61 water main breaks so far. That's 10 more than anyone there can remember and a staggering number given that the community has just 240 miles of water lines.
The repairs are made all the more difficult by dangerous subzero temperatures that freeze soil down to a depth of 3 or 4 feet.
"The crews out there, their coveralls are freezing solid," said Greg Swanson, general manager of Moline's utilities. At times, their pant legs get so stiff, they can't even bend their knees.
"They get in their trucks to warm up a bit, and they just stay with it," he said.
Because the ground is so rigid, leaking water often does not escape directly above the busted pipe, but travels hundreds of feet before finding a soft spot or an opening, occasionally shooting into the air like a geyser, Swanson said.
Not only that, but the ground is so hard that the same digging machines that can normally expose a pipe in less than an hour have to scrape and claw for 11 hours or more to do the same job.
"The contractors say they've never seen anything like it," said Doug Dunlap, a village trustee in the tiny Illinois community of Lyndon.
Compounding the workers' woes are parked vehicles that are difficult or impossible to move because water that rose to their bumpers has turned to ice.
"We had tires that wouldn't spin because they were in a huge block of ice, and we had to chop the ice until they could get out," said Lenore Joseph, describing a row of cars on her Chicago street that looked like so many bugs trapped by flypaper.
Far less dramatic but especially aggravating are all the potholes, which form after water seeps into cracks in the pavement, turns to ice and expands.
Chicago's potholes are multiplying by the thousands. In just the first six weeks of this year, the transportation department said crews — working around the clock — have dumped some 2,000 tons of patching material into more than 125,000 potholes. The city is almost certain to fill more than the 625,000 potholes patched last year.
The cost of the extra works mounts quickly. In Moline, for example, the team that handles the water mains has in just the last two weeks clocked 300 hours of overtime out of a budget that allotted 1,300 hours for the entire year.
Michigan State Transportation Director Kirk Steudle said an extra $30 million, a third more than budgeted, is needed to pay for the near-constant snowplowing. The cost and usage of salt has doubled in just a year.
The proliferation of potholes exposes what experts have long said: Many of the nation's roads are in such poor shape that they are more vulnerable to crumbling.
"Many cities have ignored the minor cracks and potholes, and now they're getting big," said Steve Schlickman, executive director of the Urban Transportation Center at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
Not only that, but the rapid repairs may actually make conditions worse.
Munir Nazzal, an assistant professor of civil engineering at Ohio University, led a study that found patching asphalt only stays in place for a matter of weeks, days or even hours before traffic scatters it. And snowplow blades can actually fill potholes with snow, where it melts, seeps into the road surface and freezes.
"They're not solving the problem at all," Nazzal said.
Art Cabello has seen that for himself.
"It's really bad out there," said Cabello, manager of a Chicago tire shop that is welding far more broken rims than he can ever remember. "The other day I welded a rim and 20 minutes later the customer drove by and hit" another pothole right in front of the shop. The axle broke, and the car had to be towed away.t


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Rice is a yummy gluten-free ingredient that tastes wonderful by itself, or it can be transformed into so many different dishes, from many different cultures. but, if you happen to love salty, bold, and vibrant flavors, I have a little secret to share with you. Instead of adding other spices, try cooking egg rice with chicken stock.
Cook the rice and then drain, spread it out to steam-dry and set aside.
- Heat 2 to 3 tbsp of the oil in a large wok,over a high heat,then add the chillies,onion and fry until lightly browned.add curry leaves turmeric powder and tomatoes and cook around 5 min
- Now add chicken stock and crack an egg onto the pan, and wait for it to cook just a little bit.
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WASHINGTON — A truce stopped the fighting in Korea that once threatened to spread into a world war whose outcome might have been decided by nuclear weapons. Sixty years later, the costs of the Korean War continue to mount even amid relative peace.
Hostility lingers between the North and South and between the North and the United States, which still has no formal diplomatic relations with the communist nation in spite of the war's end on July 27, 1953. That ongoing antagonism is rooted in the U.S. commitment to take a leading role in assisting the South should war break out again on the Korean Peninsula.
Washington has tried for years to wean its ally off its dependence on the U.S. military by setting a target date for switching from American to Korean control of the forces that would defend the country in the event North Korea again attacked the South. That target date has slipped from 2012 to 2015 and, just this past week, American officials said the Koreans are informally expressing interest in pushing it back still further.
Another powerful legacy from the 1950-53 conflict is more personal for Americans: the seemingly endless challenge of accounting for thousands of U.S. servicemen still listed as missing in action. That mission, which competes for Pentagon resources with demands to also retrieve and identify MIAs from the battlefields of World War II and Vietnam, is beset with problems including bureaucratic dysfunction, according to an internal Pentagon report disclosed July 7 by The Associated Press.
What began as a Cold War contest, with the former Soviet Union and China siding with the North and the U.S. and United Nations allies supporting the South, remains one of the world's most dangerous flash points. In some respects, the security threat from the North has grown more acute in recent years.
So the U.S. is stuck with a lead wartime role in Korea and with a dim prospect, if any, of building the kind of relationship required to return to the former battlefields of North Korea to excavate remains of U.S. MIAs. The Pentagon says there are about 7,900 MIAs, of which approximately half are thought to be recoverable.
The U.S. has kept combat forces on the Korean Peninsula since the fighting halted with the signing of an armistice, or truce, and it still has 28,500 troops based in the South. They are a symbol of a vibrant and important U.S.-South Korean alliance, and few advocate even a partial American troop withdrawal. But some U.S. military officers believe their permanence on the peninsula, with a singular focus on North Korea, is an anachronistic arrangement that should have been overhauled years ago.
The armistice agreement itself did not envision a long-term U.S. troop presence. It contains a passage recommending that within three months a high-level political conference be convened to negotiate the withdrawal of all foreign forces from Korea and "the peaceful settlement of the Korean question." That has never happened.
Bruce Bennett, a Korea expert at the RAND Corp., a federally funded think tank, says he believes the argument for giving Seoul wartime command of its own troops loses ground as North Korea's nuclear ambitions grow bolder. The North has tested nuclear devices and may be capable of mounting one on a ballistic missile — a worry not only for South Korea, Japan and others in the region but also for the United States.
"From the South Korean perspective — and I believe there is a lot of truth to their argument — having the U.S. in (the lead) is a strong deterrent of North Korea, and it means North Korea can't split the alliance," he said.
For similar reasons, some South Koreans favor asking the U.S. to reintroduce short-range nuclear weapons onto the peninsula. President George H.W. Bush withdrew all U.S. nuclear weapons from Korea in 1991.
In 1994 the South took peacetime control of its forces from the U.S. four-star general who heads a South Korean-U.S. Combined Forces Command, but the American general remained responsible for wartime control. In 2006 the two countries agreed that South Korea would assume wartime control of its forces in April 2012.
But in June 2010, shortly after North Korea torpedoed and sank the South Korean ship Cheonan, Seoul and Washington agreed to delay the handover of wartime operational control until December 2015. Now, U.S. officials say Seoul officials are again raising the prospect of another delay, although no formal request has been made.
Also on hold are U.S. hopes to send forensic science teams back to North Korea to find U.S. MIA remains. Although the North began to allow U.S. excavations in 1996, Washington stopped in 2005 amid rising nuclear tensions.
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Mark Bowden of Black Hawk Down fame has just weighed in on the mission to kill bin Laden with a book titled The Finish: The Killing of Osama Bin Laden (Atlantic Monthly Press). Much of the excerpt that Vanity Fair published chronicles how President Obama et al chose between a drone strike, precision bombing, and an assault by Navy SEALs, as well as how the attack was carried out. The first priority, of course, was determining if bin Laden and his people actually resided at the Abbottabad compound.
Here, in part, was what attracted the CIA to the site.
Panetta brought two of the agency's bin Laden team leaders to the Oval Office. They handed Obama classified pictures and maps and walked him through the material. What had first intrigued them was the compound itself. Unlike most homes in that affluent neighborhood, it did not have Internet or phone connections. The walls were unusually high, topped by two feet of barbed wire. There was no way to see inside the house itself, from the ground or from above. The agency had learned that the compound was home not only to [bin Laden courier] Ibrahim Ahmed's family but to his brother Abrar's family as well. They went by assumed names: Ahmed called himself Arshad Khan, and the brother went by Tariq Khan. They had never been wealthy, but their accommodations were expensive. The brothers were also wary. They burned their trash on-site. None of their children attended school. In telephone calls to distant family members, always made from locations away from the compound itself, they lied about where they were living. The C.I.A. has been known to misinterpret many things, but one thing it recognizes is high operational security.
At first glance, it seems as if bin Laden and Ahmed had thrown caution to the winds by hiding in plain sight in Abbottabad. However, when it came to behaving like normal citizens, they apparently lost their nerve. In other words, they failed to take their security to the next level and realize that their very cautiousness was a red flag. It's true that bin Laden couldn't walk the streets. But they could have taken their garbage out!
More to the point, use of phones and the Internet — innocuously, of course — would have provided the perfect cover.


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How to Wear Neon Hair After 30
We know, you think you could never pull off neon hair -- but read on to see how easy (and pretty) it actually is
The process is the same as coloring the underneath section at the back of your head, except it's applied to your bangs. For some color combo help: Black hair looks great with blue; if your hair is red, try hot pink; if it's blonde, go for orange or yellow; and if it's brown, try purple or green.
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Great article! Yes, this option is really for the adventurous woman. But as a young-at-heart, happy and confident woman, I would love and feel very comfortable with a few strands of a pretty violet color ( not necessarily neon) tucked into my long black hair. At 41, I'm still rockin' my Adidas Gazelles and will NEVER apologize for it. It's all about personal style and expression. I may just take the plunge after reading this!
by nycmuse Friday, December 28, 2012 at 07:18AM Report as inappropriate
This fad never interested me.
by EricaC123 Thursday, December 27, 2012 at 01:14PM Report as inappropriate
OOO, I want to try the temporary highlights!!! I love colorful hair, but now that everyone does it, it's not as unique.
by Chris213 Sunday, December 23, 2012 at 07:27AM Report as inappropriate
Ridiculous! Nobody looks good with neon hair. As women age they look foolish trying these fads. Embrace your age. Don't be the butt of peoples jokes.
by toddfan Saturday, December 22, 2012 at 03:01PM Report as inappropriate
great tips but i dont think neon looks good on anyone, i think this is maybe a good look for 13 year olds not 30+ or even 20+
by rayshaviolet Saturday, December 22, 2012 at 06:06AM Report as inappropriate
I love these bright looks
by LittleBunny Friday, December 21, 2012 at 11:05AM Report as inappropriate
I like the bright colors. I have done pink, purple, fire red. I just turned 30. I still find it fun. But I\'m also a hairstylist so it\'s easy to switch styles to keep things edgy.
by ReflxnsOfGrace Monday, November 26, 2012 at 05:54PM Report as inappropriate
i love this
by Nicole2814 Saturday, November 3, 2012 at 11:17PM Report as inappropriate
Something subtle perhaps, such as highlights or lowlights ... but neon? Not past 20 something. Otherwise it looks unrefined. Like you're trying too hard.
by robyne00 Monday, October 8, 2012 at 04:49PM Report as inappropriate
too much for my age.
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Spending on U.S. construction projects rebounded in February, helped by a surge in home construction, which rose to the highest level in more than four years.
Construction spending rose 1.2 percent overall in February compared to January, when construction had dropped 2.1 percent, the Commerce Department reported Monday.
Spending rose to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of $885.1 billion, which was 7.9 percent higher than a year ago.
The advance was led by a 2.2 percent rise in private residential construction, which climbed to an annual rate of $303.4 billion, the best showing since November 2008. Private nonresidential construction was up 0.4 percent while public construction rose 0.9 percent.
Construction spending is expected to keep growing this year, fueled by more homebuilding and broader improvement in the economy.
For all of 2012, construction spending increased 9.8 percent, marking the first annual gain after five straight years of declines. Construction spending is still well below healthy levels. But it is slowly coming back, led by a recovery in housing that looks to be strengthening this year.
Steady hiring and nearly record-low mortgage rates have encouraged more Americans to buy homes. More people are also moving out on their own after living with friends and relatives in the recession. That's driving a big gain in apartment construction and also pushing up rents.
In February, spending on single-family construction rose 4.3 percent, helping to offset a 2.2 percent drop in apartment construction. Residential activity is now 20.1 percent above where it was a year ago.
The small 0.4 percent rise in nonresidential construction in February followed a 5.9 percent plunge in January. The February gains were led by a 4.8 percent rise in office construction and a 3.1 percent increase in health care, a category that covers hospitals and doctors' clinics.
The 0.9 percent rise in public construction reflected a 1.1 percent increase in state and local government building. Federal construction dropped by 1.1 percent following a 2.1 percent decline in January.
In February, U.S. homebuilders requested permits for future construction at the fastest pace in 4½ years. And they started to build single-family homes at the fastest pace in that time period.
The Twin Cities, which saw a 53 percent increase in permits for new single-family homes in March compared with last year.However, with no blockbuster multifamily projects permitted in the past month, the total number of planned housing units resulting from those permits was down slightly compared with March 2012. Cities in the 13-county metro area issued 358 permits for 525 new housing units, compared with 235 permits for 532 units in March 2012, according to the Keystone Report. The combined value is $131 million, up from last year's $82.9 million.
With sales of new homes and previously owned homes trending higher, the increased demand has helped push home prices up. U.S. home prices rose 8.1 percent for the 12 months that ended in January, according to the Standard & Poor's/Case-Shiller 20-city index. Prices rose in all 20 cities surveyed and eight markets posted double-digit gains.
Case-Shiller reported that the Twin Cities saw a 12.1 percent year-over-year home-price increase, tied with Los Angeles for the sixth spot in the 20-city index. Prices here dropped 0.5 percent from December to January, finished in the lower third of the index.
Rising home prices are expected to encourage more people to put their homes on the market. The market has been held back by a low supply of available homes for sales.
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- 3rd row shoulder room: 1,461mm (57.5")
- Compression ratio: 11.50 to 1
- Engine bore x stroke: 94.0mm x 85.8mm (3.70" x 3.38")
- Engine displacement: 3.6 L
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- Engine torque: 266 lb.-ft. @ 2,800RPM
- Exterior body width: 1,996mm (78.6")
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- Front headroom: 1,053mm (41.4")
- Front hiproom: 1,476mm (58.1")
- Front legroom: 1,042mm (41.0")
- Front shoulder room: 1,573mm (61.9")
- GVWR: 2,794kg (6,160lbs)
- Interior cargo volume: 651 L (23 cu.ft.)
- Interior maximum cargo volume: 2,781 L (98 cu.ft.)
- Passenger volume: 4,449L (157.1 cu.ft.)
- Rear headroom: 991mm (39.0")
- Rear hiproom: 1,446mm (56.9")
- Rear legroom: 976mm (38.4")
- Rear shoulder room: 1,579mm (62.2")
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- Turning radius: 5.9m (19.5')
- Wheelbase: 3,072mm (120.9")
- Appearance: digital/analog
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- Blind spot: Side Blind Zone Alert warning
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- Exterior parking camera front: HD Surround Vision yes
- Exterior parking camera left: HD Surround Vision yes
- Exterior parking camera rear: HD Surround Vision yes
- Exterior parking camera right: HD Surround Vision yes
- Front reading lights
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- Lane departure: Lane Keep Assist active
- Low tire pressure warning
- Outside temperature display
- Parking sensors: Rear Park Assist rear
- Rear reading lights
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- Rear window wiper
- Tachometer
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Sam Harris and the atheist label
So, let me make my somewhat seditious proposal explicit: We should not call ourselves "atheists." We should not call ourselves "secularists." We should not call ourselves "humanists," or "secular humanists," or "naturalists," or "skeptics," or "anti-theists," or "rationalists," or "freethinkers," or "brights." We should not call ourselves anything. We should go under the radar—for the rest of our lives. And while there, we should be decent, responsible people who destroy bad ideas wherever we find them.Myers rightly takes issue with this proposal. This quotation was the first thing I read from Harris' address on the SKEPTIC mailing list, and I wrote this in response before I read his entire talk:
I disagree with everybody who says there's only one way we should all be.But then, after reading Harris' entire speech, I amended this as follows:
I have no problem with there being atheists, agnostics, freethinkers, naturalists, skeptics, brights, humanists (secular or otherwise), rationalists, and people in the closet or under the radar.
Now that I've actually read his essay, I do strongly agree with him that "atheism is not a worldview." It is a small but significant component of a large set of possible worldviews.I should add to this that in my opinion, the term "freethinker" includes a subset of theists (I am in agreement with Jeff Lowder on this point, though, unlike Jeff, I believe I have met such people, though perhaps I have confused some kinds of fideists with freethinkers), and I welcome association with them.
I went to my first atheist meetup group meeting a couple of weeks ago, curious to see what it would be like. It was the first meeting of a group of people who have different ideas about what they want to do--some want to be political activists against the religious right. Some want to picket churches. Some want social events with like-minded people. I gave my endorsement for the last of these, and further suggested that they be as inclusive as possible to bring together people from other existing groups in the Phoenix area--skeptics, humanists, atheists, etc., as an informal network to have events and let people know of what other groups are doing. The megachurches succeed by creating a framework in which there are lots of little subgroups catering to a wide variety of interests, and a secular community should offer the same.
Harris' point that "Atheism is not a thing" is the same point I made to this group--it may be that the only thing we have in common is a lack of belief in God. If the group focuses on that, the meetings will be as entertaining as a meeting of people whose only commonality is disinterest in watching spectator sports, who get together to discuss their disinterest in watching spectator sports (or worse yet, watching spectator sports to comment on how stupid it is).
I have a preference for the term "skeptic" over "atheist" because I like the way it focuses the attention on method--doubt--rather than on doctrine--lack of belief in gods. If I were to find sufficient evidence for the existence of God, I would become a theist, but I would remain a skeptic. One of the most inspiring books I've read in the last couple of years was Jennifer Michael Hecht's Doubt: A History, because she shows that there is a very long tradition of doubters of the dominant religious views, and that even in cases where doubters are driven underground, doubt resurfaces again.
UPDATE (October 8, 2007): Sam Harris has responded to criticism here, and P.Z. Myers responds to that here. I agree with Myers.
UPDATE (October 9, 2007): P.Z. Myers comments on Sam Harris' references to an atheist "cult." Again, I agree with Myers here--the attributes of a cult are something like this or this. There can be atheist cults, but they need to exhibit those characteristics to deserve the name.
UPDATE (October 16, 2007): Chris Hallquist weighs in on the subject at the Internet Infidels website.


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